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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and royal official, often called the father of English literature. Working as a courtier, diplomat and customs controller in London, he wrote Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales in the London dialect of Middle English, helping to make English a literary language alongside French and Latin. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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